Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

When it comes to taking a “nuts and bolts” subject in real estate investing from involving a bunch of technical jargon to making it easy to understand and apply…Brian Kline does it extremely well in this book.

Brian does an excellent job of first laying the foundation for a technical book with a solid education on understanding taxes and applying them to the real estate investing business. I had the “feel” that he built up to the infamous 1031 exchange rather well.

As an added bonus, he goes into great detail on the 1031 exchange…a topic that most real estate books shy away from. Brian takes the 1031 head on, and gives a thorough course on the subject. You will know much more than expected of the various aspects of this real estate tax advantage after reading this book.

Finally, a real estate investing book that covers the tax advantages and doesn't bore me to death. You get 5 stars Brian!

A big part of real estate investing has to do with funding – It’s actually easier than you think to acquire funding for all your deals – read on and find out how…

Don't borrow to invest…you will find the interest paid will offset your gain on the investment, and worse still, if the investment loses money, you will still have the loan.

I will give you some good advice…pay attention.

You are young and that makes a big difference..Save up your money until you have $1,000, and take it to the bank and buy a no-load balanced mutual fund, Figure an amount per month that you can afford to invest and tell the bank to take this amount once a month to buy more shares of this fund,
Then start reading about investments, markets, market psychology, how changing interest rates affect markets, how current events affect markets, and anything you can learn about investing will help you understand.

This amount you invest every month won't be noticed by you (not having it to spend) after a few months…..Increase this amount when you can..if you get a raise, put the take home increase into your fund. As you learn about investing and understand your risk tolerance, branch out ito more diversification, Like a good equity fund, maybe a resource fund, but start with a balanced fund.

Over the years you will get rich following this advice, but don't start spending your fund on cars or trips…otherwise you will have to start all over again.

When a property gets foreclosed on, and it's the first lien holder that is doing the foreclosing, then the second and third and fourth (etc.) will get wiped out at the foreclosure auction. What an investor will do is to buy/tie up the property from the defaulting owner and see if he can discount the first and second. The second will most likely agree to a small amount (usually 7-10 percent) because they will lose everything once the property gets foreclosed on. The first will usually accept a 20 percent hit.

Now what you quoted is that the second note holder was stating that he will own the property by buying it from the person in default and take over the first position's loan payments and make it current. Therefore, he is not interested in selling his note to the investors. The investors in that example were idiots for not controling the property first or the owner didn't want to sell. The investors were hoping to buy the second note at a discount and bid at the auction and own the property with at least 15 k equity plus whatever the homeowner had in equity.

You can buy any note by approaching the lending institution that holds the note and making an offer to buy it. You will need cash to do so.

Also, to clear up the quoted reference, you can purchase property "subject to" existing liens/loans. Taking property "subject to" means that you will take over the payments, but the old owner is still responsible for the loan(s). So if you stop paying the mortgage/trust deed, the lending institution will go after the old owner and start foreclosing on the property. Buying property "subject to" existing loans is one way where someone with no money and/or credit can get into a home and own it. The second note holder was buying the property from the defaulting owner using the "subject to" clause.

I either confused you or helped you. Either way, I just saved you hundreds of dollars in late night real estate infomercials!

E-mail me if you have any questions.

Regards